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Typical 50's movie

posted 12 years ago by MountainMan
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A 30-minute movie convoluted with filler and stretched into a boring 2 hours. I saw it on Encore Suspense and it was rated 4 stars out of 4... what a joke. But with Alfred Hitchcock directing, and with stars James Stewart and Doris Day, what do you expect? Worth watching (thanks to James Stewart), but highly overated. I guess that is just the way movies were done in the 50's. A great movie to watch is THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO LITTLE, with Bill Murray... what a crackup comedy.
Mountain Man

[–] gilbert_gumphrey 12 years ago

I'll admit that seeing it again for the first time in years last night, it didn't hold up as well as I remembered. I think if you took out the amazing Albert Hall sequence and a couple other nice suspense scenes (although several of them, like the stalking before the first Ambrose Chappell are total red herrings), there's not a whole lot left. Mostly, what bugged me was the paiiiinful opening 30 minutes, which are about as slow and uninteresting as anything Hitch ever filmed. But overall, I think the movie is still decent. But I am with you on Too Little...that movie's so underrated, and so funny.

[–] GuyOnTheLeft 9 years ago

I actually thought the beginning was decent. It's true that the Albert Hall sequence is the best; but it's most everything else from after they left Morocco that I really found tedious.

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[–] Vega_Lyra 8 years ago

I disagree. I think this was a wonderful film. Plenty of intrigue and suspense. I like "typical" 1950's movies though, and I wasn't even born for another 25 years or so after they were made.

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[–] lukemm-90850 7 years ago

Filler?? Oh, you mean all of the character development, story development and building of suspense?? Yeah, those are worthless for modern audiences. It's really sad an old mountain man like you can't find the patience to enjoy a film like this.